[Peace-discuss] What's happening in Syria?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

<http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/29/the-syrian-war-is-not-what-romantics-want-it-to-be/>

This analysis, by a well-know Israel Lobby neocon, seems relatively accurate - up to the concluding paragraph, where a negotiated arrangement is called a loss for "the Syrian people."

Compare this account from the best English-language reporter int her region, Patrick Cockburn:

<http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/as-syria-disintegrates-so-too-does-iraq-8909348.html>.